2019 Sand Play Therapy Art Therapy September 7th

2019 Sand Play Therapy Art Therapy September 7th

It is not just sand... Sand play offers you a deep therapeutic work. SAND PLAY THERAPY – Art Therapy- A GESTALT APPROACH

In this weekend you will:

• Use creative methods to enhance your therapy practice with Sand Play tools.
• Learn how to facilitate and promote positive results with symbolic imagery
• Uncover the reasons why your clients may resist verbal counseling.
• Improve your skills working with traumas and early child painful history.
• Discover ways to clear negative memories and blocks to your own growth
• Find the way of facilitating sand play figures and understand their unconscious meanings.
• Enable clients to discover their self-supports and deal with their life crises.

Day/s: September 7th, 2019

Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Cost

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Club: $178.50

Non- Members: $210.00

More Information: gestaltarttherapy@gmail.com

Where:

Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

Ashgrove- Brisbane

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2019 Mandalas and Art Therapy August 31

2019 Mandalas and Art Therapy August 31

Life is a circular process. Our unresolved conflicts are also circular...like the universe, we are constantly circling around our being and growing.

In this one-day event you will learn how to change the repetitive patterns that emerge in your life using/creating/ modifying mandalas in a symbolic way.

Discover how to create a big range of Mandalas using awesome techniques to engage clients in their therapeutic process.

Learn how to practice this skill to be used with your clients and/or for your own personal growth.

Note: According to art therapist and mental health counsellor Susanne F. Fincher, we owe the re-introduction of mandalas into modern Western thought to Carl Jung, the Swiss psychoanalyst. In his pioneering exploration of the unconscious through his own art making, Jung observed the motif of the circle spontaneously appearing in therapy. At that moment the circle drawings reflected his inner state of being.

What you will learn:

• The meaning of Mandalas in our lives.
• How to enhance therapeutic results using the Mandala symbol
• Enable the client to recognise the symbol as their guide
• Discover the unconscious messages using the Mandala

Day/s: August 31st, 2019 

Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Cost

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Club: $178.50 

Non- Members: $210.00

Where:

Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

Ashgrove- Brisbane

Ask us for Bank details, please

Credit card payments have 4% of commission is applied, see the link.

See Cancellation Policy in the registration form, please.

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Full membership 2019: $30

2019 Working with Children in Art Therapy May 11

2019 Working with Children in Art Therapy May 11

Explore how to use Painting, Drawing, Drama, Music, Sand Play Therapy, etc.  with kids in a therapeutic context.

• This workshop is 2019 AASW endorsed CPD hours
• This course has 2019 ACA OPD points

Any professional in the helping services who wants to work with children, must consider the child as a total system: the family, social, cultural and developmental factors influencing the child.

In addition, we must pay attention to the small or subtle details that the adults may not notice or may not understand about the child’s symptoms that are clearly obvious to a professional. For example, the manner we communicate with a child is to notice the pace, rhythm and assimilation of the content, as well as the meaning attribution to the play experiments during the session. This is a way of developing trust and safety during the session by clarifying anything that is happening between the child and the adult therapist.

In this workshop you will learn:

• Discover how deep traumatic experiences in childhood affect the adult client.
• Uncover the truth why most traditional work with child trauma do not work.
• Learn how you can enable children to achieve positive feelings about their contacts with parents and society at large.
• Practice art therapy methods and tools to encourage creativity in self and children.
• How to be aware of the several ways you may be able to work with emotional wounds. 
• The way to work with children in a therapy session could be a little different than working with adults. Professional therapists need to adjust their therapeutic tools to the level of children.

What You Will Learn:

The basic principles and practices will be covered through experiential exercises, discussion and some personal exploration.

This will include:

 • The paradoxical theory of change

 • The magic of role playing with children

 • Being open to the unexpected – magic happens

 • Experiencing the Now: savouring and chewing

 • The importance of being specific and concrete

 • The creative void and change in the Here and Now

Also, we will explore an introduction to Gestalt work with children:

• Use of drawing and colours
• Family sculpturing and more
• Puppets as a magical transition object
• Sand Play Therapy

Day/s: May 11, 2019

Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Cost

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Club: $178.50 

Non- Members: $210.00

More Information: gestaltarttherapy@gmail.com

Where:

Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

Ashgrove- Brisbane

Ask us for Bank details, please

Credit card payments have 4% of commission is applied, see the link.

See Cancellation Policy in the registration form, please.

Be a member today just for $30/Year and access to discounts!

Full membership 2019: $30

2019 Sand Play Art Therapy May 4th, at our Centre

2019 Sand Play Art Therapy May 4th, at our Centre

Sand Play Therapy - a Gestalt approach with symbolism.

• This workshop is 2019 AASW endorsed CPD hours
• This course has 2019 ACA OPD points

Sand Play therapy is a form of counselling or psychotherapy that uses symbolic play to communicate with and help people, especially children, to prevent or resolve psychosocial challenges. This helps them to move towards better social integration, growth and development, emotional modulation, and trauma resolution.

Sand Play therapy can also be used as a tool of diagnosis. A sand play therapist observes a client playing with toys (play-houses, pets, dolls, etc.) to determine the cause of the disturbed behaviour. Because trauma is often debilitating, directed sand play therapy works to create change in the present, without the lengthy healing process often required in traditional sand play therapy.  According to the psychodynamic view, people (especially children) will engage in play behaviour to work through their interior issues and anxieties. According to this viewpoint, play therapy can be used as a self-help mechanism for adults as well.

What you will learn:

• Learn how to understand the meaning of symbols as therapy tools
• Use creative methods to enhance your therapy practice with Sand Play tools.
• Learn how to facilitate and promote positive results with symbolic imagery
• Uncover the reasons why your clients may resist verbal counselling.
• Improve your skills working with traumas and early child painful history.
• Discover ways to clear negative memories and blocks to your own growth
• Find the way of facilitating sand play figures and understand their unconscious meanings.
• Enable clients (Adults, Children, Couples, Families) to discover their self-supports and deal with their life crises.

Day/s: May 4th, 2019

Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Cost

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Club: $178.50

Non- Members: $210.00

More Information: gestaltarttherapy@gmail.com

Ask us for Bank details, please

Credit card payments have 4% of commission is applied, see the link.

See Cancellation Policy in the registration form, please.

Be a member today just for $30/Year and access to discounts!

Full membership 2019: $30

2019 Working with Teenagers & Art Journals March 30th at our Centre

2019 Working with Teenagers & Art Journals March 30th at our Centre

This Amazing and interesting Tool is the "Star" of the Art therapy techniques.

• This workshop is 2019 AASW endorsed CPD hours and ACA Points

 During this workshop you will learn:

• How to create Art Journals
• How to develop Mixed media techniques building Art Journals
• Starting the process of using the Art Journal with clients
• Selecting some creations at the Art journal to work in the therapy sessions
• How to close the therapy session after an Art Journal work
• Offer options to the client to continue working with the Art Journal at home until the next session

This will be an interesting and creative workshop!

Day: March 30th, 2019

Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Cost

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Club: $178.50

Non- Members: $210.00

More Information: gestaltarttherapy@gmail.com

Ask us for Bank details, please

Credit card payments have 4% of commission is applied, see the link.

See Cancellation Policy in the registration form, please.

Be a member today just for $30/Year and access to discounts! 

Full membership 2019: $30

2019 Introduction to Gestalt Therapy March 16th at our centre

2019 Introduction to Gestalt Therapy March 16th at our centre

Here some pictures from the workshop:

Pictures participants' copyright & Gestalt Art Therapy centre

You will be introduced to Psychological tools that can be used to increase the sharpness with which you see and relate to the world and practice psychotherapy in an authentic manner.

• This workshop is 2019 AASW endorsed CPD hours

This workshop is designed to enable the participant to establish a basic Intervention model that clearly describes the process of therapeutic relationship between client and therapist. This requires the participant to become familiar with the ‘phases’ of this relationship. After demonstrating some degree of comfort in this structure, the participant will be able to begin to develop his or her own ‘style’ of interventions and creative practice. Gestalt therapy was developed from various influences upon the lives of its founders during the times in which they lived, including: the new physics, Eastern religion, existential phenomenology, Gestalt psychology, psychoanalysis, experimental theater, as well as systems theory and field theory.

Learning objectives:

• To examine specific therapeutic applications of Gestalt Therapy theory and explore practical interventions with individuals, couples, families and groups.
• To examine the ways a therapist designs intervention strategy using the cycle of awareness model.
• To enable the participant to develop a beginning personal style of ‘Gestalt Work’ and enhance his or her practice with clients.

At the workshop, we will extend the knowledge of:

-          The power of the here and now and awareness in working with clients

-          How to develop a Gestalt experiment to enhance and improve therapeutic outcomes

Day: March 16th, 2019

Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Cost

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Club: $178.50

Non- Members: $210.00

More Information: gestaltarttherapy@gmail.com

Ask us for Bank details, please

Credit card payments have 4% of commission is applied, see the link.

See Cancellation Policy in the registration form, please.

Be a member today just for $30/Year and access to discounts! 

Full membership 2019: $30

2019 Introduction Working with Groups March 9th at our Centre

2019 Introduction Working with Groups March 9th at our Centre

Discover how to managing any kind of Groups: Work groups, School Groups, Groups Therapy

• This workshop is 2019 AASW endorsed CPD hours

Each Group is a different World...

Group leadership is not just about techniques. Using gestalt therapy approach to groups will enable you to learn how to:

• Keep the focus of the group in the present NOW.
• Direct attention to the “how” not “why” questions.
• Developing clear self-awareness ability.
• Learn how to work with creative experiment to enhance group activity.
• Facilitate group enactment to develop solutions to problems emerging in group.
• Refine yours and participants' abilities to work with group dynamics as they emerge in the training group.
• Learn the secret of leadership from within.
• Become at ease in a safe place in which you can develop skills as a group facilitator.
• Can practice various skills, creative methods in working with groups and become confident in being present as a leader.
• Discover the key principles of group process work: Group energy, clients’ patterns and leadership models.
• Practice working on simulated issues that deal with group problems and members will learn how to lead and solve group problems.
• Learn how to resolve group conflicts, emotional blocks, 'shadow work' and more creative methods in group work.

Day: March 9th, 2019

Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Cost

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Club: $178.50

Non- Members: $210.00

More Information: gestaltarttherapy@gmail.com

Ask us for Bank details, please

Credit card payments have 4% of commission is applied, see the link.

See Cancellation Policy in the registration form, please.

Be a member today just for $30/Year and access to discounts! 

Full membership 2019: $30

2019 Children & Art Therapy February 23rd at our Centre

2019 Children & Art Therapy February 23rd at our Centre

Explore how to use Painting, Drawing, Drama, Music, Sand Play Therapy, etc.  with kids in a therapeutic context.

• This workshop is 2019 AASW endorsed CPD hours

Any professional in the helping services who wants to work with children, must consider the child as a total system: the family, social, cultural and developmental factors influencing the child.

In addition, we must pay attention to the small or subtle details that the adults may not notice or may not understand about the child’s symptoms that are clearly obvious to a professional. For example, the manner we communicate with a child is to notice the pace, rhythm and assimilation of the content, as well as the meaning attribution to the play experiments during the session. This is a way of developing trust and safety during the session by clarifying anything that is happening between the child and the adult therapist.

In this workshop you will learn:

• Discover how deep traumatic experiences in childhood affect the adult client.
• Uncover the truth why most traditional work with child trauma do not work.
• Learn how you can enable children to achieve positive feelings about their contacts with parents and society at large.
• Practice art therapy methods and tools to encourage creativity in self and children.
• How to be aware of the several ways you may be able to work with emotional wounds. 
• The way to work with children in a therapy session could be a little different than working with adults. Professional therapists need to adjust their therapeutic tools to the level of children.

What You Will Learn:

The basic principles and practices will be covered through experiential exercises, discussion and some personal exploration.

This will include:

 • The paradoxical theory of change

 • The magic of role playing with children

 • Being open to the unexpected – magic happens

 • Experiencing the Now: savouring and chewing

 • The importance of being specific and concrete

 • The creative void and change in the Here and Now

Also, we will explore an introduction to Gestalt work with children:

• Use of drawing and colours
• Family sculpturing and more
• Puppets as a magical transition object
• Sand Play Therapy

Day/s: February 23rd, 2019

Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Cost

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Club: $178.50

Non- Members: $210.00

More Information: gestaltarttherapy@gmail.com

Where:

Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

Ashgrove- Brisbane

Ask us for Bank details, please

Credit card payments have 4% of commission is applied, see the link.

See Cancellation Policy in the registration form, please.

Be a member today just for $30/Year and access to discounts!

Full membership 2019: $30

2019 Sand Play Art Therapy February 16th, at our Centre

2019 Sand Play Art Therapy February 16th, at our Centre

Sand Play Therapy - a Gestalt approach with symbolism.

• This workshop is 2019 AASW endorsed CPD hours

Sand Play therapy is a form of counselling or psychotherapy that uses symbolic play to communicate with and help people, especially children, to prevent or resolve psychosocial challenges. This helps them to move towards better social integration, growth and development, emotional modulation, and trauma resolution.

Sand Play therapy can also be used as a tool of diagnosis. A sand play therapist observes a client playing with toys (play-houses, pets, dolls, etc.) to determine the cause of the disturbed behaviour. Because trauma is often debilitating, directed sand play therapy works to create change in the present, without the lengthy healing process often required in traditional sand play therapy.  According to the psychodynamic view, people (especially children) will engage in play behaviour to work through their interior issues and anxieties. According to this viewpoint, play therapy can be used as a self-help mechanism for adults as well.

What you will learn:

• Learn how to understand the meaning of symbols as therapy tools
• Use creative methods to enhance your therapy practice with Sand Play tools.
• Learn how to facilitate and promote positive results with symbolic imagery
• Uncover the reasons why your clients may resist verbal counselling.
• Improve your skills working with traumas and early child painful history.
• Discover ways to clear negative memories and blocks to your own growth
• Find the way of facilitating sand play figures and understand their unconscious meanings.
• Enable clients (Adults, Children, Couples, Families) to discover their self-supports and deal with their life crises.

Day/s: February 16th, 2019

Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Cost

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Club: $178.50

Non- Members: $210.00

Ask us for Bank details, please

Credit card payments have 4% of commission is applied, see the link.

See Cancellation Policy in the registration form, please.

Be a member today just for $30/Year and access to discounts!

Full membership 2019: $30